Cognitiv is looking to revolutionize the advertising industry by bringing intelligence to advertising and delivering unparalleled precision, relevance, and impact at scale through their Deep Learning Advertising Platform. They are seeking to hire a Senior Software Engineer (Backend) to help shape the future of AI-driven advertising solutions by building next-generation, pixel-less ad targeting systems and evolving existing platforms.
Requirements
- Strong in .NET and a major cloud provider (AWS, Azure, or GCP), with a track record of designing and delivering production systems.
- .NET Core
- AWS
- RDS
- Clickhouse
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and own backend services in .NET Core on AWS.
- Lead development of new versions of high-growth systems in pixel-less ad targeting.
- Modernize and scale one of our critical legacy systems (internet crawling).
- Collaborate with a small, senior team (2 SDE IIIs, 1 SDE II, CTO, and more senior hires coming).
- Take full ownership of systems end-to-end, from design to production operations.
- Drive improvements in performance, scalability, and developer productivity across the team and the engineering organization.
Other
- Experienced senior engineer – This isn’t your first rodeo. You’ve successfully delivered complex systems end-to-end and know how to balance speed with scalability.
- Ownership mindset – You don’t just maintain; you improve. You proactively take responsibility for entire systems.
- Resilient & gritty – You thrive in ambiguity, manage competing priorities, and push through obstacles.
- Strong communicator – You collaborate effectively across technical and non-technical stakeholders and resolve conflicts productively.
- In-person collaborator – You want to work onsite MTW in Bellevue, WA.
- Startup experience (fast-moving, lean environments).
- AdTech background.
